Cyber attacks may not have come from North Korea

Clare Baldwin and Jim Christie
Reuters
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Cybersecurity analysts raised doubts on Wednesday that the North Korean state launched recent attacks on U.S. government and South Korean websites, saying industrial spies or pranksters could be the villains.

More than two dozen websites in the United States and South Korea, including that of the U.S. State Department, were attacked in recent days.

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South Korea’s spy agency has said North Korea may be behind the attacks, while the U.S. government has said it is too soon to make such claims — and Internet security experts agree.

The implications of a state-sponsored attack are severe, said SecureITExperts’ Mark Rasch, who led the U.S. Department of Justice computer crimes unit from 1983 to 1991.

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9 Responses to “Cyber attacks may not have come from North Korea”

1. BRASS BALL Says:
   July 9th, 2009 at 4:59 am

   They can’t afford lights, its the darkest country in th world, let alone the computer tech that’s capable enough to do what they are accused of doing. N.Korea is still using an abacus as their main computer over there.

   

   wildcat Reply:
   July 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pm

   They wouldn’t be sending all the internet traffic from N. Korea – they would be using a botnet distributed across home computers all over the world. The perpetrators would only need to send out the commands to launch a Denial-Of-Service attack, and they would be smart enough to ensure that the commands they send out are hidden behind proxy servers and encrypted.

2. mike Says:
   July 9th, 2009 at 5:06 am

   PROBABLY ONE OF AMERIKA’S BLACK OPERATIONS GONE ASTRAY. CAN’T PIN IT ON N KOREA OR IRAN AS THEY HAD HOPED..POOR BASTARDS..

3. mike Says:
   July 9th, 2009 at 5:08 am

   Keep watching the pattern…it’s all psychological to get you scared and fearful ‘AND’ DEPENDENT ON GUVMENT TO ‘PROTECT’ YOU AGAINST THE EVIL ENEMY..WHEN THE EVIL ENEMY IS ALREADY WITHIN YOUR GATES:THE DISTRICT OF CRIMINALITY

4. Dyne Says:
   July 9th, 2009 at 7:01 am

   To quote Lew Rockwell in his blog post about this, “How convenient for Obama’s Wreck-the-Internet agenda! As for North Korea, hahaha — do they even have computers?”

5. truth911 Says:
   July 9th, 2009 at 7:12 am

   everything old is better except for rich fat greedy lazy lying old men

6. atonix Says:
   July 9th, 2009 at 9:58 am

   Inside Job.

7. Do Logic Says:
   July 9th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

   Any real attack of the scale and sophistication we are told has occurred (we don’t know if it really happened, we just know that the .gov peeps said so, for what that’s worth) will never be traced to the real culprit by any objective authority. The way the networks are designed, the only people capable of knowing such things are the persons controlling the root, the switches, the satellites, and so forth, and these are all the same people, and they all work for or have been jacked by the spooks.

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